The 1962 Rangoon University protests Agree_or_refuse_to_act were a series of marches , demonstrations , and protests against stricter campus regulations , the end of the system of university self-administration , and the policy of the new military regime of General Ne Win .

The main events took place Process_start in Rangoon , Burma ( Myanmar ) on 7–8 July 1962 .

On 7 July 1962 , the military regime violently suppressed Hindering a student demonstration at Rangoon University attended Participation by some 2,000 students .

In the morning hours of the next day , the military regime blew up Destroying the historic Rangoon University Students ' Union ( RUSU ) building , which had been the symbol of the anti-colonial nationalism struggle Hostile_encounter since the 1920s .

In this respect , the result of the 1962 Rangoon University protests ushered a new era of underground student activism in which open mass student involvement in national politics erupted Process_start only sporadically , most prominently during the student protests of the mid-1970s and during the 8888 Uprising in 1988 .

The 1969 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games officially known as the 5th Southeast Asian Peninsular Games , was a Southeast Asian multi-sport event held in Rangoon , Burma from 6 to 13 December 1969 with 15 sports featured in the games .

In response to the Burmese military government 's refusal Agree_or_refuse_to_act to give him a state funeral , student activists from the Rangoon Arts and Sciences University ( RASU ) took his body away from the official funeral procession and marched Self_motion it to the university campus where they held their own ceremony for him .

Two Allied fleets set Self_motion sail from Rangoon , with the Royal Navy 's Task Force 11 headed for Penang under Operation Jurist , while the larger British and French fleet sailing on to Singapore under Operation Tiderace. < ref name= '' JAPANESE SIGN THE SURRENDER OF PENANG ABOARD HMS NELSON ( 3/9/1945 ) '' > < /ref > The earlier liberation of Penang was intended to test Testing Japanese intentions as a prelude to the eventual recapture of Singapore and the rest of Malaya .

The protests Self_motion began Process_start as a student movement and were organised Arranging largely by university students at the Rangoon Arts and Sciences University and the Rangoon Institute of Technology ( RIT ) .

The protests Self_motion began Process_start as a student movement and were organised Arranging largely by university students at the Rangoon Arts and Sciences University and the Rangoon Institute of Technology ( RIT ) .

The 8888 uprising Violence was started Process_start by students in Yangon ( Rangoon ) on 8 August 1988 .